Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the statute five considerations that will be used primarily to disprove a violation. For instance, Alito lists the "size of the burden" as a consideration instead of "if a burden...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...and light specific, and also frost and winter sleep, conditions of particular year, as every instance comes just once with mix of mineral and grease, what Hopkins chose to call...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...garden, or they might be permitted to purchase their freedom in installments or conditionally, including in return for certain services. To judges' and governors' minds, such equity-based rulings placated the...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...out the views of the duties imposed on us, we may in some instances have to rise above the Law."31"Fellow Citizens," Pickens Keowee (SC) Courier, September 22, 1949. The Liberator...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...demands. And with the new climatic regime, we are now witnessing new forms of articulation of the democratic ideal. For instance, several proposals have been made to re-signify the meaning...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...formal bibliography. Lawrence S. Earley's Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest, for instance, is an important work that readers should know about. The authors overlook,...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...perpetrated against the dead, but in this instance the violation of their graves involves the destruction of a monument to evolving free black culture in the District of Columbia." Female...
Quilting Conversation
...contributors to the development of modern and contemporary art over the last century. One of the most popular galleries in Outliers contained a vast open installation that considered the influences...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...prepared Cherokees for the events of May 26, their notorious aversion to removal had not prepared the military for their resistance. "They run in every instance where they have the...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...Coal companies, facing shrinking domestic markets and in many instances bankruptcy, force workers, coal communities, and American taxpayers to bear the costs of their decline. Black lung can only be...